Happy New Year!
2008 was a big piece of shit! I’m hoping and praying that 2009 will be better, not only for me and mine, but for you and yours as well.
I couldn’t have come back home at a better time. My family needed me. I feel blessed to be here with them and be able to help out in whatever small way I can.
My Dad feel down the stairs and broke his leg the week after we got here. He is out of the hospital, but now in a rehab facility. I can see now how hard it has been on my Mom trying to handle so much. Neither Blain, nor I have found employment yet and we are living on next to nothing, but I feel we have made the right decision. I would rather be dead broke, than not be able to be here for my family.
Good blessings to all this new year.
While shopping the other night I saw this at the meat counter
I nearly died laughing. Whatever employee made this needs a big fat raise!
So it has been a week now that we have been back in the Salt Lake City. I’ve been busy, so no posts. This will have to be a catchup post.
The first night we got here, I got some kind of stomach bug, that has plagued me since! The 2nd day, I got a head/chest cold, that I am also still battling. Blain also got the cold and now Tal has the stomach crud too. So far Lula is the only one that has stayed healthy.
Last week was spent cleaning up and re-organizing my sis’s house. This week started the unpacking. Also the girls started back to school yesterday.
Of course we had to catch up with some of our favorite eateries. First, was Little Caesars Pizza. Had to have some crazy bread. They actually have a handful of Little Caesars in GA, but none in our area. Next was Italian Village, for some Bend Over Pie (aka - Pizza Bender). Oh, still so yummy!
Next was Training Table for REAL cheese fries and dipping sauce!!!
The best part so far was the bit of snow we got yesterday. Big, beautiful, fat flakes!
Of course, the kids had a snow ball fight and built a snow man. We all laughed that GA would have shut the entire state down, had it snowed like that there. The weather people are telling us we are supposed to get a pretty hefty storm this weekend. I hope it just dumps a ton of snow on us!
Lula is so excited for her field trip in Jan. to go skiing at Alta, she has made several new friends already, loves her new school and her new teacher. Tal has made some friends, got good classes and can’t wait to get to HS next year.
That’s it for now.
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Christmas is just around the corner! Can you imagine if this little guy wasn’t in a loving home, what would have happened to that sweet face? Please visit Home 4 the Holidays for more info. Or pass it along to some one who is in need of a pet.
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I just want to say right now that I am deeply sorry about my negativity on yesterdays post. Please, Blog Karma Goddess, please know that I am so grateful for making it to Wyoming and I would appreciate your great blessings for the final leg of our trip tomorrow.
I would even try to be grateful for endless fields of corn, if I had the chance to do the day over. I must have really pissed you off yesterday, for you to give me extremely high winds today. Along with corn husk storms, kamikaze tumbleweeds, wind-blown, wiggly semi trucks and what not that triggered the panic attack I experienced WHILE driving under the above mentioned circumstances. I totally must have deserved the crying jag that followed in the McDonald’s parking lot, that was totally fun.
Thank you for allowing us to get as far as Cheyenne, WY. We were hoping for Laramie, but I am more than happy to be safe and cozy in my hotel room, while a very windy snow storm rages on outside my window.
I know I am asking a lot, but the forecast for tomorrow is looking just as bleak, I’m begging for a safe return to my home.
Thanks - Me
No, I’m joking…it has only been partial hell.
I’m gonna go back just a bit. As we were packing the trailer the other day, Tigger, my idiot goofy dog found a ziplock bag on the floor that was full of multi-vitamins and fish oil pills that had been left on the floor by my idiot absent-minded husband, because the floor IS the best place to store such items, especially when you have at least one dog that will chew up just about anything he can get his little teeth on. (Remind me to tell you later about the thief and destroyer of all female panties in the house. OK, maybe not…it’s kinda gross…STUPID DOG!!) By the way, Tigger fished out the Xanax prescription bottle out of my purse the day before that and attempted to break into the tamper resistant bottle. Luckily he failed…barely.
Back to the vitamin story…after some quick research I found out we had to feed the culprit 1-2 tbsp. of hydrogen peroxide. Cheers, Tigger! Within a few minutes the poor little guy was puking his guts out again and again all over the backyard. So the kid that was being least helpful with the packing had the job of following him around to make sure he puked it all up and to not let him eat said puke, as he is prone to do. Good times!
Now back to the trip today. We got a bit of a late start from the lovely town of O’fallen, IL, which was perfect since we wanted it to be light outside to see the St Louis Arch, a first for me and the girls, since Blain partially grew up in Kansas City, MO, he had seen it before. Gotta say…AWESOME! Just a beautiful piece of architecture or maybe it’s art…ah, hell, truth be told, it’s a little bit of both.
(See Blain with the Uhaul trailer in front of me…fun, huh!?)
And we saw Busch Stadium too.
Also, gotta say…St Louis is kinda trashy otherwise. Sorry, it had to be said. But, there were quite a few beautiful churches/cathedrals amongst the run down buildings with broken windows.
Most of the rest of the day was spent traveling across MO, hanging a right in Kansas City and north to Iowa and Nebraska. There really isn’t much to say about IA and NE. Let me sum those two oup real quick like…Flat. Farms. Boring.
We went over the Missouri River. Lula was my passenger today and did a great job of taking pictures out the sun roof.
Two most interesting things about todays trip (besides the obvious Arch encounter):
1. Missouri is choke FULL of sexual deviants, apparently. We saw tons of billboards for sex shops, adult stores, lingerie stores, etc. My favorite sign was for The Adult Superstore with a huge billboard that specifically stated in VERY large letters “Try Before You Buy”, along with equally large and even more disturbing letters saying, “Returns and Refurbished Toys - Deep Discounts”. Are you fucking kidding me?! GROSS!!! I can not make this shit up people!!! And you know damn well, there are people out there who buy that shit! (hurling violently now!) I didn’t have enough time to pull out the camera to get a shot of it, but I did get a shot of the XXX Store that popped up in the middle of no where. I guess farming communities just don’t have anything better to do with their time.
2. We got our first snow flakes just before we hit Kansas City. They weren’t good ol’ big fat SLC snow flakes, but it was snow all the same. The kids were delighted. And it wasn’t bad enough to make our travel slow down by much at all.
Best, best, best part of the day is saved for last. Midway through the day we stopped to refuel at a truck stop and I picked up a heated massage padded chair for my truck. It didn’t completely cure my chronic trip back pain, but it sure helped make it more bearable.
Tomorrow…endless miles of nothingness through Nebraska and into Wyoming, stopping in Laramie for the night.
It’s been quite a while since I wrote a real post. I think I mentioned I had some shit going on and couldn’t really talk about it here at the time. You’re in luck, now I can!
The company I was working for is, how should I say this?, going down in fucking big ass flames! I knew it was. Hell, everybody who works there knows it is.
Long story short…I was laid off and we are currently on our way back home to Salt Lake.
Thanksgiving day was spent packing up the Uhaul. I totally tried to pack the girls in so that I wouldn’t have to deal with them on the 4 day drive, but they escaped.
This morning we left Georgia. It took us about two hours to cross the GA/TN state line, at which time I yelled out several expletives while I honked the horn. Free at last!!! Only to remember after that, that this road dips back into GA for a few miles before going back into TN. Oh damn! I was sweating the bad GA karma for a few minutes there, but we made it.
We made it up TN and through KY and most the way across southern IL, ending just 25 miles east of St Louis.
Tomorrow will be across MO, through a corner of IA and into NE. By the way IA and NE are two new states for me, I think that will put me right about 38 states visited.
The drive today wasn’t too bad. Tal rode with me and read from the book I just bought her about every country in the world. We made it all the way from Afghanistan through Gabon and learned some pretty cool stuff. Our favorite tidbit so far…Underwater Jesus!!! No fucking lie!!! He is located in Belize and I am totally going to start praying to him. Shaweet!!!
The worst part about the drive today…the tension in my lower back. Probably due to my driving anxiety. I hurt so bad, I had to lean up against the truck and have Blain push as hard as he could on it to loosen it up at every stop. I’m sure that was a lovely sight to see. Probably looked quite scandalous, especially that one time on the on ramp. So tomorrow I will build a little shrine and pray fervently to Underwater Jesus that I not have so much anxiety. Then I’ll take a Xanax and we will get on our way!
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I manage a help desk. It sucks. Mainly, because people are stupid. Like the guy in this video. I can REALLY relate to this and I nearly pee’d my pants watching it.
1. If I like it, it’s mine.
2. If it’s in my mouth, it’s mine.
3. If I can take it from you, it’s mine.
4. If I had it a little while ago, it’s mine.
5. If it’s mine, it must never appear to be yours in any way.
6. If I’m chewing something up, all the pieces are mine.
7. If it just looks like mine, it’s mine.
8. If I saw it first, it’s mine.
9. If you are playing with something and you put it down, it automatically becomes mine.
10. If it’s broken, it’s yours.
Visit Home 4 the Holidays for more info. Or pass this information along to someone you know that wants a pet or could use a pet.
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I can not make this shit up people. Once again, someone out there has spent WAY to much time alone in their basements, being bored, with a half gone bottle of Jack Daniels and a bong.
Apparently, this has been on the interwebs for some time. Oddly enough, I am just barely finding it, which is odd, because I thought I had seen the interwebs already and was working my way back through. Hmmm…strange.
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How could you NOT love this? Visit Home 4 the Holidays for more info.
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One day, long, long ago… there lived
a woman who did not whine, nag or bitch.
But this was a long time ago…
and it was just that one day.
The End
My good friend Barefootgypsy, posted this on twitter several times today. I watched it the first time she posted it. I liked it. I think you should watch it.
